If you read this blog, I assume you're creative as well and that you like to keep your hands busy making the most interesting things. From my own experience, I know that creative people don't limit their opus to a single craft, but they spread their knowledge in every direction they can.

As an example, a good friend of mine, DIE, is a talented seamstress; she sews everything from clothes to bags, and on top of that she's so fascinated with cardboard that she makes an amazing furniture from it! Magda would make an original jewelry from fabric, I'm sure you won't see something like that anywhere. Don's clothes is as intriguing as his jewelry. Liza Jane is an artist, she teaches kids at school, and from time to time she'd paint and make her own clothes.

My alternative hobby (actually, one of them) is patchwork. A fascination with this technique came few years ago, when I stumbled on photos of incredible quilts on the internet. Since I had quite an experience with sewing at the time, making ornaments out of zillion pieces didn't seem too complicated to me. However, making a nice and interesting pattern was a challenge. And so I started to play with square, triangle and diamond shapes and here are the results: the first two quilts were made in same tones, to use them in our house at the country side; the third quilt was a present for my friend; the fourth one remained unfinished, I even lost it while moving from one flat to another, but I find it the prettiest of all.

Even though I haven't made any quilt in the last couple of years (excluding a simple pillow I made for Burda Style), I'm still very fond of them and I make some big plans for making a quilt with Vasarely look alike ornaments (OP Art is one of my favorite paint directions).